Posts Tagged ‘clutter’

Join Me Today for Lifehack Live at 10am PST: Clutter Diet Creator Lorie Marrero

Come join me this morning at 10am Pacific time for the live recording of Lifehack Live. This weeks’s guest is Lorie Marrero, creator of The Clutter Diet. As always, I’ll be taking your calls during the show, so call in with your questions and comments. The number is (347) 838-8244 (US-based phone number). Listen to the show’s stream at blogtalkradio.com/lifehack

The podcast is officially released the Monday… » Continue

March 6 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: clutter, loriemarrero, organization, Podcast | 4 comments»

4 Decluttering Techniques

Organized Home has a few great ways to get rid of clutter in your home or at work. For most of us, clutter is just the result of bad habits and indecision.

The first method described attempts to force decision making in a very simple way:

The Four-Box method forces a decision, item by item. To apply it, gather three boxes and a large trash can. Label the boxes, “Put… » Continue

October 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clutter | 2 comments»

How To Purge Your Closet

Merlin Mann over at 43folders mentions a tip from Peter Walsh to help you trim your closet to size.

What it entails is getting all the items that hang on hangers and put them up ‘backwards’ with the open end of the hook facing outwards. Then you set a date - a month or so.

Now each time you wear an item and put it back in your closet, you… » Continue

August 16 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing, clutter, organization | 6 comments»

The Seven Essential “Stations” Every Home Should Have

When organizing our clients’ homes, we teach people there are some common “stations” that virtually every home should have. Here are the seven that we feel are most important:

1. Destination Station - This station belongs where you come in and out of the house. It’s where you put all of your things down when you come in, such as purses, keys, and backpacks. We often drill a… » Continue

March 27 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, homeoffice, organization, practice | 53 comments»

Don’t Just Get Organized, Stay Organized! 7 Concepts That Stick

As Professional Organizers, we don’t just get clients organized, we also teach them how to stay organized. Here are some empowering home organizing concepts that we teach people every day.

Be decisive!
Everything that is on your countertop or desk right now most likely represents decisions that have not been made. Clutter results from putting off these decisions for later. Your ability to get and stay organized is… » Continue

March 13 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, decision-making, organization, planning, storage | 2 comments»

Cut Your Clutter Calories!

As Professional Organizers, we talk often with our clients about how getting organized is a lot like losing weight, since they both require a program of prevention, reduction, and maintenance. Preventing clutter from being created is the first step toward reducing your organizational “weight gain.” Here are a few tips to help you cut those clutter calories:

Control your “clutter cravings.”
People often seem to have an appetite for… » Continue

March 6 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: clutter, gift, organization, prevention, selfimprovement, shopping | 5 comments»

10 Tips to Keep Your Desk Clean

It’s really easy to slide on your work area cleanliness, especially if you work in a busy environment. Ian’s Messy Desk gives 10 tips on how to keep your workspace clean and organized. This is a guide “for the rest of us” on how to keep our desks organized and clean on a daily basis. Nothing too crazy here, just good simple advice… » Continue

March 2 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: cleanliness, clutter, organization, Productivity | 8 comments»

Clutter 101: Why Do We Keep Clutter?

The Organize It weblog has posted the first article in a series that explains why we feel the inclination to keep so much stuff. The post also offers advice on how to figure out if it is finally time to just throw something away:

It’s expensive/It cost me a lot of money
Well if its lumped in with your clutter, its either served its purpose or been a big… » Continue

March 1 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: clutter, organization, Productivity | 1 comment»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #6 – I can find anything in my piles.

Myth: Piles of papers or things are organized and people can find anything quickly in those piles. They say, “Believe it or not I know where everything is.”
Reality: It takes a lot of time for people to find specific papers within piles and often they don’t find the papers until they’re no longer needed. This leafing through piles often causes a lot of stress that the user is accustomed to… » Continue

February 28 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: clutter, paper, Productivity | 3 comments»

Clutter-Busting Secrets

As Spring roles around in a few short months, it will be time for the infamous “Spring cleaning” in my household. Real Simple has an excellent article that details how to stay clutter-free. The article includes, “Seven strategies for motivating yourself to get rid of the things you don’t want, need, or even like.”

Envision your home as a prospective buyer might: Uncluttered spaces make the

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February 5 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: cleaning, clutter, household, organization | 1 comment»

Get Rid of Your Clutter!

Some of the most tedious tasks that we need to do at times is to sift through all the paper, bills and faxes that we accumulate over time. This chore that throws itself on ourselves is a time guzzler that we can all gladly do without. The endless slips of paper that we gather around us pile up day after day to become unending ream of paper that one… » Continue

October 27 2006 | By Vishal | Tagged: clutter, timemanagement | 5 comments»

Greatest Tools #4: Margarine Tubs with Clear Lids

Number 4 of 10 on the Greatest Tool of All Time List.

The only known protection to the hole in the time space continuum is the clear-lidded-empty-margarine-tub. Without it all of your smaller than a breadbox items will be lost forever.

What is it good for?

Keep the needle for your basketball safe inside.
Corral your lose paper clips and thumb tacks.
Grab some plaster of Paris and stick junior’s foot in. Send it to

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August 23 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: clutter, reuse, tips | 1 comment»

Get STUFF Out of Your House

Not unlike my earlier post, “Editing Your Life,” I’m still obsessing over the ideas of cutting to make space for things that matter. Let’s talk about that in your house. I’ll admit that there’s a recurring theme to this post: DONATE THINGS. THROW THINGS OUT. If you’re the ultimate pack rat, skip this post.